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Fedora i18nFlock 2017
Jens Petersen, Parag Nemade, Pravin SatputeRed Hat
i18n/l10n/g11n Track
● Fedora i18n (this session)
● Transtats (3:30pm)
● Fedora G11N (4pm)
About us● Jens Petersen
○ i18n Software Engineering Manager, Red Hat○ Fedora i18n, Haskell, Packager Sponsor, Fedora Workstation WG
● Parag Nemade○ Senior Software Engineer, i18n Software Engineering, RH
● Pravin Satpute○ G11n Quality Engineering Manager, Red Hat
I18n Agenda● F24-F27 Review● Langpacks auto-installation ● Input methods● Fonts● Transtats● Modularity● Fedora Editions● QA and test automation● Community involvement/events● Brand
Internationalization:● helps to make your software work uniformly across multiple regions.● includes adding i18n support in your code which allows UI strings to be
translated (l10n).● helps to set user locale settings such as date, number, currency, sorting,
paper size.● allows users to display and input text in their own preferred language.
Globalization, Internationalization, and Localization
I18N is a part of G11N
G11N
I18N L10N
Recent Fedora i18n Changes
F24 i18n Changes
● Langpacks Installation With RPM Weak Dependencies● Glibc locale subpackaging
F25 i18n Changes
● IBus Emoji Typing● Unicode 9.0● ibus-typing-booster multilingual support
ibus Typing BoosterSuggestive text input
https://mike-fabian.github.io/ibus-typing-booster/
F26 i18n Changes
● libpinyin 2.0● Fontconfig cache directory change
libpinyin-1.3
libpinyin-2
F27 i18n Changes● Chinese Serif Fonts● libpinyin 2.1
● Flatpak ibus support and fontconfig caches● Emoji color rendering
Chinese Serif font
Future features and discussion
How to install Langpacks for users?After installing Workstation Live users want to have langpacks for Libreoffice etc automatically installed.
Where is do this:
A. Initial-setupB. Gnome-initial-setupC. Gnome Control Center
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Current Fedora IMEs● Japanese: ibus-kkc● Simplified Chinese: ibus-libpinyin● Traditional Chinese: ibus-libzhuyin● Other Chinese: ibus-table● Korean: ibus-hangul● Other: ibus-m17n
Non-IME languages just use xkeyboard-config
Input methods future● Input method engines as a logical level above keyboard layouts● Wayland input method protocol● Flatpak ibus portal● Improving the IM landscape
Emoji rendering and input● Fixes to cairo and pango to render color emoji correctly● Input of emoji with gtk, ibus, ibus-typing-booster
Glibc locales● Mike Fabian working now along with Rafal Luzynski on upstream glibc locales
maintenance● Plans to sync gradually CLDR locale data to glibc
Flatpak i18n● ibus support - ibus portal● Fontconfig cache path issue
Fonts review● Default Fonts● Noto fonts● Liberation fonts● Fonts coverage● Fonts quality
TranstatsAfter this session Sundeep Anand will be presenting a talk on Transtats, a webapp for tracking translation status for packages in Fedora, upstream, etc.
● http://transtats.org/ ● Hope to deploy to Fedora infrastructure during F27 cycle
Modularity and i18nWhat does modularity mean for Fedora i18n?
● Fonts● Input methods● Runtime ● ?
Fedora Atomic and Atomic Workstation● Locale handling● Language support and langpacks
Anaconda keyboard selectionQuite hard to find US layout with non-US layout set
QE and Test automation● Have to seen broken system due to i18n?
○ Things break at system and also at application.
● Testing○ Fonts○ Rendering○ Input method○ I18n tools
● Test days has limitations○ Not new test cases but change proposals are many.○ Less participation
● Automation
Fedora i18n Brand and Contributors● Fedora i18n vs Fedora g11n
● More upstream● More contributors?
Long term ideas● Dynamic locale switching● Separation of translations (workflow and packaging)● Multilingual configuration (fallback, fonts)
Fedora i18n contacts● #fedora-g11n● Fedora i18n mailing list● https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N ● Biweekly meetings in #fedora-meeting @ Wed 00:00 UTC● Bugzilla i18n keyword● https://pagure.io/i18n/issues
● petersen@redhat.com, pnemade@redhat.com, psatpute@redhat.com
Thank you!